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Tom Hanks Is Grateful a ‘Forrest Gump’ Sequel Was By no means Made


Tom Hanks is pleased to go away Forrest Gump simply how it’s.

The Oscar winner, who reteamed together with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis for his or her new film Right here, lately informed The New York Instances that he’s grateful a sequel to the 1994 movie was by no means made.

“It’s this extraordinary amalgam that stands fully by itself and by no means needs to be repeated,” he mentioned of the film. “And thank God we by no means bothered making an attempt to make one other one. Why put a hat on a hat?”

Forrest Gump, which noticed Hanks play the titular character, was based mostly on late writer Winston Groom‘s 1986 novel. The movie follows the lifetime of Forrest Gump, an Alabama man with an IQ of 75 who yearns to be reunited together with his childhood sweetheart, and his experiences from the Fifties to the Seventies

Whereas a sequel was by no means tailored for the large display screen, Groom did publish a 1995 sequel, Gump & Co., following the success of Forrest Gump.

Hanks mentioned on the Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast in 2022 that they “did take a stab at speaking about one other Forrest Gump,” nonetheless, it “lasted all of 40 minutes.” He added, “After which we by no means… we mentioned, ‘Guys, come on.’”

Elsewhere in his interview with the Instances, the Asteroid Metropolis actor added that he enjoys seeing how particular the film nonetheless is for folks.

“I nonetheless get letters on a regular basis saying, yearly the household will get collectively, we do what we did again in 1995, when it first got here out on dwelling video. All of us watch it, from starting to finish,” he mentioned. “Proper now, somebody is watching that film from starting to finish someplace on the planet. And it’s touchdown with that very same sense of consolation and familiarity.”

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